FLINT, MI - Attorneys for a Flint water class action lawsuit want Gov. Rick Snyder and other state officials added back as defendants in the case.

An amended complaint filed Friday, Oct. 5 in U.S. District Court seeks to add Snyder, former Department of Environmental Quality Director Dan Wyant, former Flint emergency manager Darnell Earley, former Mayor Dayne Walling and DHHS official Nancy Peeler and several as defendants. A judge dismissed them from the suit in an Aug. 1 opinion.

The amended complaint alleges, in part, that Snyder and staff were aware of the health risks associated with the city's transition to Flint River water, including the risk of Legionnaires' disease, for months before an official announcement was made and that they concealed this information from the public.

"The citizens of Flint were both forgotten and mistreated by those involved in the Flint water disaster," said attorney Theodore J. Leopold, an attorney representing Flint residents and businesses in the lawsuit, in a news release. "To this day, residents continue to suffer because of the reckless decisions of senior state and local officials."

In the amended complaint, Gov. Snyder and other city and state officials are accused of treating Flint differently based on its majority African-American population while providing safe, clean water to county residents that are predominately white.

Ari Adler, a spokesman for Snyder, on Sunday, Oct. 7 declined comment on the amended complaint as it is part of pending litigation.

The bid to name state officials defendants comes after U.S. District Judge Judith Levy issued a 128-page opinion Aug. 1 in which she dismissed Snyder and others, including former state Treasurer Andy Dillon and Genesee County Drain Commissioner Jeff Wright, from the case.

Levy's opinion said her decision was an attempt "to fairly evaluate the claims brought in this case by these (12) individuals and three businesses against these defendants."

Emergency managers appointed by Snyder changed the city's water source to the Flint River in April 2014, triggering the Flint water crisis.

Despite problems with bacteria, elevated levels of total trihalomethanes, sharp increases in the level of lead in water and suspicions that Flint water was connected to outbreaks of Legionnaires' disease, Flint residents continued to receive river water until October 2015.